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Hover car game manual#
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Failed Future Forecast: In-universe example.Down to the Last Play: Jason wins or loses several races by just a few centimeters.Barnaby is disqualified and Jason is declared the winner. Disqualification-Induced Victory: After Jason loses a race to Barnaby, his mechanic, Sally McDuff, discovers that Barnaby has placed a microwave emitter next to her supply of magneto drives, draining their power.Crowd Chant: The audience chants "We love the Bug!" after Jason passes out during a 9G turn, and the Bug leans forward to pilot the car to the finish.In the highly automated/computer-driven world of hover-car racing they're considered so anachronistic only Jason and his team train to do them - which comes in very handy when a virus crashes all the systems in one race, leaving them with a crucial advantage.

Hover car game manual#

Chekhov's Skill: Manual hovercar pit stops.Brain damage is the only kind of disability that can't be cured by modern medicine. Career-Ending Injury: Scott Syracuse, Jason's mentor at the Race School, used to be a champion racer until his neurotransmitters got busted in a crash.The Bug dives across the Line, holding the steering wheel in his outstretched hands, and wins by less than a foot. When the Bug has almost made it, Xavier gets his car working again and races after him. Jason is in a position where he can't easily get out of the cockpit, so he removes the steering wheel, gives it to the Bug, and has him run the rest of the way, since according to the rules of this race, the first car to get the steering wheel across the Line wins. Bringing Running Shoes to a Car Chase: Xavier Xonora rams into Jason, causing both of their hover cars to crash 500 meters from the Finish Line.

Hover car game license#

Artistic License Geography: Based on the lengths of the race courses we read about, Tasmania in that book is less than a quarter of the scale it is in real life (which would also explain how the entire island being bought by the International Race School would be plausible in any way).

Principal LeClerq even persuades some of the students to sabotage her equipment so she'll lose races and drop out of the School.

All of the Other Reindeer: Ariel Piper is the first female racer ever to be accepted into the Race School, which was male-only until recently, and she's ostracized by most of the boys.

20 Minutes into the Future: The book is set "a few years from now.".